In amongst CJ Mahony and Georgie Grace's futuristic sounding installation at Smiths Row, Alicia Rodriguez finds the work is more about capturing the past than the sci-fi future.
A crystal carries the particular essence
of a petrified movement, an exquisite object in the course of being formed. The
apparent hardness of the stone and the softness of its changeability offer a
complex set of properties that can form the basis of a speculative, theoretical
study concerning time, space and inter-dimensional travel.
CJ
Mahony and Georgie Grace, in a collaborative project drawn from a diverse range
of sources and disassembled pieces of previous work, use ideas surrounding the
process of crystallization in an attempt to become closer to some kind of real
representation of ‘the past’. They exploit the immersive, time-based nature of
film and installation to mimic the faceted refractions and subtle manipulations
of crystalline forms.
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